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PMI PMP - Project Management Professional (2025 Version)

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Total 1988 questions

An agile team has completed 9 out of 10 stones tor the sprint. During the retrospective a few team members pointed out that they finished a of their stories However one team member tailed to finish a story

What should the agile leader do1?

A.

Emphasize to the team that each member is responsible for their story but the team is collectively responsible for finishing the sprint

B.

Ask the team to address this at the next sprint planning instead of at the retrospective

C.

Suggest that the team assign stones at the beginning of the sprint based on each person's strengths to maximize performance

D.

Work with the product owner to remove the story from the sprint because the points cannot be splits

A project manager is implementing an enterprise-wide software project The project has a great business impact and is fully supported by senior management However, the project manager is facing difficulties gelling the support of several key departments.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Ask senior management to communicate with these departments.

B.

Hire a project management consultant to help resolve the issue

C.

Convince senior management to introduce rewards to resisting departments.

D.

Understand the user concerns and revisit the stakeholder engagement plan

A new solution is being deployed in countries A B and C. This solution will allow the countries to propose new services to their customers Country A has asked for a change in the solution m order to comply with its own customer market

What should the project manager in charge of the deployment in country A do?

A.

Accept the change request from country A and reschedule the deployment project for country A.

B.

Take the request into account and ask the sponsor to inform countries B and C about the change

C.

Ask country A to submit a change request that will be analyzed along with countries B and C

D.

Refuse country As request as there is no time for the change as deployment has already begun

A servant leader is about to start a confidential agile research project. A high risk has been identified related to a team member disclosing details of the project with external people.

What should the servant leader do to address this risk?

A.

Include this restriction as a ground rule and ensure all team members are familiar with it by reviewing the ground rules at the end of every

iteration.

B.

Forecast the cost of the risk to calculate the required contingency reserve that needs to be allocated if the risk materializes.

C.

Ask the functional manager to educate the team about this risk and ensure that disciplinary actions will be taken.

D.

Contact the human resources (HR) department to ensure that disciplinary actions will be taken if the employees disclose any confidential

information.

One phase of a project took much longer than initially anticipated The key stakeholders expressed their concern regarding a potential project delay. What should the project manager do?

A.

Expedite the next phase to reduce slippage

B.

Add more float to the overall project schedule

C.

Request additional contingency from the sponsor.

D.

Organize a root cause analysis (RCA) workshop.

A project manager wants to make sure that similar projects in the future use the project's performance data as a reference. However, the project manager is not sure how to accomplish this.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Share project documentation in a repository with exclusive access.

B.

Schedule weekly knowledge-sharing sessions with key stakeholders.

C.

Send periodic emails to senior management with the latest project updates.

D.

Keep project artifacts up-to-date and accessible to all stakeholders.

A predictive project team come across a scenario where they need to use some agile tools and methods. However, they did not feel this was appropriate since their organizational project management processes did not mention this.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

A.

Ensure the project team follows the organizational project management processes.

B.

Create a change request to include the agile methods and proceed to implementation,

C.

Work with the team to determine appropriate project methods and practices and implement them.

D.

Prepare a summary and escalate this issue to the project's change control board (CCB),

An agile project team is tasked with a new project After multiple discussions with me customer it appears that there is a lack of clarity on the requirements which resulted in delays in the architecture and design phase

What should the team do next?

A.

Start with the end user documentation review with the customer and gather feedback

B.

Start with design of the prototype review with the customer and gather feedback

C.

Start with the product prototype development, review with the customer, and gather feedback

D.

Start with the product architecture review with the customer and gather feedback

A company strictly uses an agile approach, and the backlogs are continuously updated. A new project lead is hired and feels uncomfortable sharing some of the product's vital information with the team and the product owner.

What does the project lead need to do to prevent a risky situation in the next iterations?

A.

Keep the project focused and executed in silos for better outcomes.

B.

Report the concern to the agile project management office (PMO),

C.

Inform the product owner of the concern so that i can be addressed.

D.

Open up to the team to work collaboratively to achieve the outcomes.

A company has undertaken a large transformation project using agile practices. The project sponsor has asked the project manager to promote the new values identified in the intended transformation to the project team

What should the project manager do?

A.

Add a user story during sprint planning that gives recognition to behaviors that are aligned with the new values

B.

Send a standard email to the team prior to every daily standup containing the new values

C.

Organize a team meeting focusing on the new values associated with the transformation

D.

Give recognition to team members' behaviors that are aligned with the new values during the sprint retrospectives

A project manager is working on a software product that will be installed across all levels of the client's organization. The client's executive sponsor insists that only stakeholders at the highest level of the company will be involved in the planning phase.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Ask the client how the project will affect the client's organization and recommend that all impacted parties be involved.

B.

involve an executive-level stakeholder at the project manager's own company to speak with the client's executive sponsor.

C.

Perform an independent analysis to determine the stakeholders from the client's organization.

D.

Defer to the judgment of the client's executive sponsor since they will determine whether the project is a success.

A procurement team lead has been reported as getting into conflicts with other project team members on a weekly basis, The project manager engages with the team lead and discovers that other team members do not believe the team lead is right for this position.

What should the project manager do to resolve these recurring conflicts between the team lead and the other team members?

A.

Receive details of the conflicts from all involved, issue all a warning notice, and send all to leadership training.

B.

Organize a meeting to discuss emotional intelligence with the team, and establish a rule of respect and special treatment for the team lead.

C.

Issue the team lead a warning, and consider recommending the team lead for emotional intelligence training.

D.

Find ways to reduce the tension, increase cooperation, and understand the emotions of all team members involved.

Due to a tight schedule, a project team member suggests skipping the quality check of a minor deliverable. What should the project manager do?

A.

Evaluate the impact of skipping the quality check for the deliverable.

B.

Seek approval from the sponsor on an extension of the project schedule,

C.

Seek approval from the quality board to skip the quality check.

D.

Ask the team member to work overtime to complete the quality check.

An agile team completes a deliverable that is to be certified by another expert team The second team does not take the deliverable for many months What should the servant leader do?

A.

Review the process and remove the impediment

B.

Escalate this to the project director for a resolution

C.

Remove the certification need from the project scope

D.

Escalate this to the agile lead of the second team

In the middle of an iteration, the product owner tells the agile team that the

government has updated legal requirements. This will result in some changes in the product

definition.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A.

Review the iteration backlog because the product definition has changed and needs to

be reassessed before continuing the project.

B.

Continue work and ask the product owner to assess the changes and add/remove the

stories as needed in the backlog.

C.

Ask a business analyst to assess the changes and then add/remove the stories in the

backlog and prioritize them by business value.

D.

Ask the product owner to add new changes to the bottom of the backlog in order to

handle the modifications as a change request.

A complex project is m its execution phase. The project is set up to produce both predictive and incremental deliverables. The agile team is running late on their tasks There is a resource on the agile team who is responsible for producing progress reports for the project manager This resource has the required skills to help other team members with their workload

What should the project manager do to optimize the time of the resource who produces the progress reports?

A.

Work more closely with the agile team to eliminate the need for progress reports

B.

Record this in the issue log and find a resource to produce the reports

C.

Produce the progress reports on their own

D.

Engage a new resource to produce the progress reports

A project manager is about to start a large-scale project with unclear requirements, a fixed deadline, and a fixed budget. The client is unable to provide a product owner, as they do not have enough capacity and they want to be involved only a few times during the project.

How should the project manager plan and manage the project?

A.

Refuse to manage the project as there is too much risk in developing this kind of project without a product owner.

B.

Define the project's requirements, prepare a long-term detailed plan, and manage the project according to it.

C.

Convince the client that a product owner is needed, as the project manager is not able to run an agile project without all the relevant roles in place,

D.

Agree up front on a minimum viable product (MVP), establish deadlines for review, and run the project with a backlog and weekly sprints.

A sales learn working on an IT deployment project approached the project manager on several occasions and complained about nonpayment of their overtime pay The project manager realized that other team members are receiving their overtime pay

What should the project manager do next?

A.

Have a discussion with the sales team to find a solution to the issue

B.

Validate the reason and add it as an issue in the issue log

C.

Direct the sales team to speak with accounting to resolve the issue

D.

Escalate the issue to the functional manager

A key challenge that a project manager is facing is the lack of discipline by various team members and their inability to harness energy to achieve the project objectives. What should the project manager do to overcome this challenge?

A.

Meet with each team member separately and apply an appropriate approach with each one.

B.

Approach the project sponsor and request help in discussing the project deliverables with team members.

C.

Explain to the team that the project manager is ultimately responsible for the delivery.

D.

Assign multiple managers to the various teams and delegate all of the tasks to them.

A key stakeholder has recently started in a company and has been assigned to a hybrid project. Although very experienced in their domain, the stakeholder has only been exposed to predictive project approaches.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Inform the stakeholder that they must level their knowledge with other stakeholders.

B.

Update the risk register with the potential impact and apprise the steering committee.

C.

Inform the project management office (PMO) that the team will use a predictive approach for this project.

D.

Allocate time to mentor the stakeholder in the selected project approach.

A project manager at a plant with continuous operations needs to deliver a project urgently to meet a market opportunity. What should the project manager do to meet the time-to-market need?

A.

Add resources to activities

B.

Conduct serial activities on tasks

C.

Increase the number of standup meetings

D.

Perform tasks in parallel

A project is coming to a close, and the experienced project team members will be moving on to the next project. Who is responsible for ensuring that the appropriate knowledge transfer is done prior to project closure?

A.

The project manager must ensure that the knowledge transfer occurred and that this is also included in the organizational process assets (OPAs),

B.

The project team members need to ensure they have supplied sufficient knowledge transfer.

C.

The project sponsor must ensure all knowledge transfer is completed before project closure.

D.

The stakeholders need to ensure they have received sufficient knowledge transfer for ongoing support after the project handover.

An agile project is in its early iterations, but the project manager already realizes that

more resources will be needed to achieve the expected time lines. There are no internal

resources. available.

What vendor strategy should the project manager use to maximize project delivery?

A.

Use compression techniques to break down the scope and assign the scope pieces to

different vendors with a fixed-price contract.

B.

Use the contingency budget for hiring additional vendor resources to mitigate any project

risk.

C.

Engage in a time and materials (T&M) contract and hire a local vendor to support

development.

D.

Establish a solid view of the scope and requirements and engage a vendor with a fixed price contract.

A project manager received the project charter for a new product. The project is expected to have two main deliveries: the hardware part that has detailed specifications already defined, including a sample machine, and the user interface software that has only a basic specification and a

requirement for a user experience design approach.

Which project management approach should the project manager use?

A.

The software development has a high uncertainty level, so an agile approach is recommended for the project.

B.

The scope is well defined; therefore, a predictive approach is straightforward and the hardware and software can by synchronized on the gates.

C.

The deliverables are significantly different, so the project should be split into two projects that are driven by a program.

D.

A hybrid approach will work, using agile for software development and a predictive approach for the hardware deliveries.

A project manager is involved with a project to remodel a long-used product. There are no proper records for the original design and execution of the original product. The stakeholders doubt that the remodel can be accomplished without this information and are hesitant to provide support for the project.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Acknowledge the stakeholders’ concerns with open dialogues and realign the project with stakeholder requirements and past lessons learned.

B.

Solicit a larger reserve for cost and time and manage the stakeholders’ expectations.

C.

Create a plan to inform stakeholders on the progress so they are able to see that the project can succeed,

D.

Share the threats of not updating old solutions and ask stakeholders to be patient with any inconveniences.

A company is transitioning their projects to utilize hybrid project management approaches While putting together their project team, the project manager discovers the requirements from the customer are unclear and also realizes that the team members are lacking critical technical stalls needed for project success. However the customer will not accept any changes to the requirements

What should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

A.

Submit a change request to adapt the objectives of the project to the current situation

B.

Ask the scrum master to refine the user stones to improve the team members' understanding

C.

Find and provide training to the project team members who do not have the required skills

D.

Extend the duration of standup meetings to include skill transference from trained to untrained members

A project manager became aware of misunderstandings between a key stakeholder

and a team member with regard to some of the features defined in the project scope. What

should the project manager do?

A.

Reconcile the key stakeholder to the team member's recommendation.

B.

Reconcile the team member to the key stakeholder's recommendation.

C.

Escalate the communication concerns to the project management office (PMO) and

request that they take action

D.

Work with both the team member and the key stakeholder to reach a consensus.

An agile team recently started working on a project for a financial institution. The

project sponsor is concerned that an agile approach will not provide enough support for the

organization's compliance standards.

In order to mitigate this risk and avoid problems, what should the project manager do?

A.

Propose using a compliance review board that will be responsible for approving all

product features prior to their release to the public.

B.

Liaison with the compliance group, making them responsible for understanding the

requirements and keeping them prioritized in the backlog.

C.

Meet with the compliance team and make sure that their requirements are covered in the

definition of done (DoD) for each story.

D.

Ensure that the peer review process also covers compliance requirements, creating a

second layer of security for the project.

A bank has decided to initiate a project to transition from serving small businesses and entrepreneurs to mid- and large-scale businesses The country's economy is struggling, and some stakeholders cannot agree on this transformation need

What should the project manager do'?

A.

Escalate the issue to the sponsor and ask for stakeholder engagement

B.

Review the project business case and update it periodically

C.

Plan for strategic program management

D.

Implement a communications management plan

A project manager is managing an internal software development project that is on schedule to complete in 1 month. The project should begin seeing value once the system is online,

yet some stakeholders lack an understanding of how it will provide value to the organization.

What should the project manager do next?

A.

Ask the sponsor to identify requirements for a new project to monitor and report achievement of the benefits.

B.

Direct the team to implement the benefits management plan and track achievements before the end of the project.

C.

Coordinate with the stakeholders to ensure the benefits management plan is in alignment with the goals.

D.

Update the work breakdown structure (WBS) and project schedule with tasks and resources to track benefits realization.

A technical lead has complained to the project manager about a team member's performance. The team member has repeatedly missed tasks that have put sprint commitments at, What should the project manager do?

A.

Remove the learn member from the team and hue a more skilled one

B.

Ask the technical lead to provide more training to the team member

C.

Ask the technical lead to discuss performance directly with the team member

D.

Meet with the team member to understand the situation and provide feedback.

A company is transitioning its projects from a predictive to an iterative approach. The protect team is complaining because they are unsure of what needs to be done due to all of the changes requested by the product owner for features already developed since the beginning of the project.

How should the project manager handle this situation?

A.

Ask the product owner to create a new entry in the risk management plan regarding likelihood and imped

B.

Review the backlogs from similar projects and understand how change requests were implemented

C.

Ask the product owner to follow the change request process to formalize new requirements

D.

Make sure that the product and sprint backlogs have the required level of documentation and both are visible to the team

A project requires the installation of a call center to support operations. It is estimated that the call center will need 100 people working on

weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and weekends from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Implement the call center with internal staff to ensure the work is performed according to the company’s culture.

B.

Work with 50% of the people internally and contract the other 50% to an outside company.

C.

Delegate the analysis to the human resources (HR) department in order to organize the call center operations.

D.

Conduct an alternative analysis to decide whether to hire people directly or contract with a company to do the job.

One of the risks identified during project planning activities is related to a component from a preferred vendor. The component utilizes new technology, and there is a possibility of incompatibility with other parts of the system that are being developed.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Create a risk probability matrix to address the incompatibility.

B.

identify an alternative component in case of incompatibility.

C.

Use the contingency fund to redesign the interface if it is incompatible,

D.

Require the vendor to redesign the incompatible component to fit the system.

One deliverable for a project is to translate and print materials for students every 2 weeks Printing services are available but without guaranteed time lines because other projects make a significantly higher profit and have a higher priority

What should the project manager do to mitigate the risk of not having the materials printed on time?

A.

Meet with the manager to set a high priority for printing the materials

B.

Create a change request to modify the print requirements

C.

Include a risk response in the resource management plan

D.

Purchase a high-volume printer specifically for this project.

A project manager was recently assigned to a new project that is about to start. The

organization has already signed a fixed-cost contract with the customer detailing the scope and final delivery date, but the project manager has identified several internal constraints and conditions that will certainly prevent the project from being completed in the number of iterations initially planned.

What should the project manager do next?

A.

Create an issue log template that will be used to identify and track impediments.

B.

Create a contingency plan in case the project deviates from the initial plan.

C.

Create a schedule management plan to ensure the project meets the delivery date.

D.

Create an assumption log and map assumptions to impediments based on the impact to

the project value.

A new project manager has been assigned to a project that is in its second phase The product created in the first phase was transferred to operations During a meeting, the project sponsor complained that some of the reports contain conflicting data on the product value

What should the new project manager do next?

A.

Review the benefits management plan

B.

Refer to the lessons learned from the first phase

C.

Consult the project reports from the previous project manager

D.

Collect information from related departments

A project manager is leading a project with a predictive approach for a governmental body with strictly defined requirements. In the middle of the project, the sponsor requires a significant new feature to be included. This feature was not in the original plan, nor was it part of the planning process,

What should the project manager do?

A.

Descope low-priority features that were not explicitly requested and add this feature as a high priority.

B.

Inform the senior manager that they will need a new project management plan for this feature,

C.

Complete the most current feature and release the resources for the new feature.

D.

Analyze the impact of this change and present the options to the senior manager.

A project is delayed. The project manager added extra resources to some activities and approved overtime for several team members.

What technique is the project manager applying?

A.

Fast tracking

B.

Resource leveling

C.

Critical chain method

D.

Schedule crashing

During project execution for an innovative product, a project team has been working hard to meet the deadlines. However, one of the team members will be leaving in 3 weeks and will be replaced with a new team member.

How should the team share tacit knowledge?

A.

Provide the new member with access to the knowledge database so all of the project documentation Is available.

B.

Have the team meet on a regular basis and share their experiences, challenges, and lessons learned.

C.

Ask the new member to document all of the requirements so a better understanding of the project objective is acquired,

D.

Provide the new member with the project documentation repository to allow the new member to review previous lessons learned, Owner

A project learn member is having difficulty delivering assigned tasks for a project that is at risk of being delayed. The main issue is that the team member does not understand a new system that was recently implemented.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Assign an experienced resource to support the team member

B.

Escalate the team member's performance to the project sponsor

C.

Ask the team member to learn the new system as on-the-job training

D.

Issue a change request to extend the project schedule

A lead project manager for an agile project needs to prioritize requirements define the scope of the initial product and deliver the approved scope in a series of multiple versions. What should the project manager do next?

A.

Work with the product owner to evaluate and prioritize the requirements

B.

Ask the lead developer to run a meeting with the stakeholders to agree on an ordered list

C.

Determine the expected benefits of each requirement to maximize the overall business value

D.

Prioritize the requirements based on the hierarchical level of the requesting stakeholders

What is the correct way to put an organization on the proper path to changing their mindset to an agile approach?

A.

Hire employees who specialize in agile approaches so they can better contribute to

projects.

B.

Assign employees to agile projects so they can quickly adjust to the new approach.

C.

Train all employees in agile approaches.

D.

Shift the way the company views, reviews, and assesses employees.

A project has issues arising where the data integration team and the data migration team have areas that overlap It is not clear who would be responsible for delivery on these areas What should the project manager do next?

A.

Review the project scope to align the project teams

B.

Review the resource management plan to align the project teams

C.

Review the project integration plan to align the project teams

D.

Review the work breakdown structure (WBS) to align the project teams

A project manager is leading a project that involves on-site and remote team members One task that was assigned to a team member in another country appears to be behind schedule When the project manager inquires about this, the team member claims that the task was completed and that this was reported to the team lead via a telephone conversation

What should the project manager do?

A.

Communicate the ground rules, principles and reporting methods to the project stakeholders

B.

Penalize the project team lead for not updating the project documentation properly.

C.

Review this issue with the team lead for possible ways to resolve this situation

D.

Issue guidance to the team member about reporting directly to the project manager

During a kick-off meeting at the start of project execution, the vendor presents a

migration plan to client stakeholders. The director of the business unit that owns the solution being migrated demands the ability to make the final go/no-go decision about whether the systems go live.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Schedule a meeting with the director to provide proof of expertise so the client

stakeholders will trust the project team's decision.

B.

Schedule a meeting with the project sponsor to determine if it is appropriate to accept

the director's request to provide a decision.

C.

Confirm with the director that the client stakeholders will be made accountable for the

decision in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM).

D.

Ask the client to initiate a change request to make the director accountable for the

decision.

A project manager Is leading an agile software development project with strict deadlines The client complained that the last deployment did not meet the acceptance criteria The development team lead is arguing that the deployment met all specifications and has provided evidence of the client's specifications

What should the project manager do?

A.

Schedule a meeting with all stakeholders to understand what went wrong and who should be held responsible

B.

Review the requirements traceability matrix with the team lead and the client to adequately resolve the issue

C.

Meet with the client and discuss the project deadlines

D.

Seek approval for more time for rework and resolve the issue

A new product is designed for a certain market. This product needs to adhere to the health and safety regulations for that region. What should the project manager do to ensure that the product complies with the regulations?

A.

Inform the design team to ensure compliance during the product design phase

B.

Inform the quality team that they need to ensure that the product is in compliance

C.

Ensure that compliance is explicitly mentioned in the relevant requirements

D.

Meet with the team and remind them of the compliance requirements

A healthcare company requires all new employees to attend mandatory computer-based training courses, Because some of the employees work with highly sensitive patient data, the training covers various aspects of data security. In spite of this training, data breaches continue to occur in

one of the project teams.

What should the project manager do?

A.

Apply a root-cause analysis on the data breaches.

B.

Ensure that all team members complete the training.

C.

Redesign the training courseware to make it interesting.

D.

Retrain the team members responsible for the breaches.

An operations manager continuously raises concerns about a project's benefits to the company While some concerns are valid most of the time these concerns have caused delays in project meetings

How should the project manager handle this'?

A.

Discuss the meeting delays with the director of operations and ask for support with the concerns.

B.

Review the operations manager's concerns and ensure these concerns are addressed

C.

Escalate the concerns to the project sponsor and discuss options to address them

D.

Include the operations manager's concerns in the risk register and assign actions to mitigate the risks.